Tired of updating Thunderbird

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:25 -0400, James McManus wrote:
> Both yum and my package manager tell me I need to update:
> 
>  thunderbird.x86_64                       2.0.0.16-1.fc9
> updates
> 
> When I update, the package is successfully downloaded and installed,
> but both yum and the package manager tell me I still need to update
> it.   This has happened ever since I moved to Fedora core 9.  I have
> tried various yum commands, such as "clean" to try and resolve this
> problem, but have not had success.  Any ideas why this is occurring?
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if you check the installation notes, they clearly state that updating
thunderbird will fail and that what you need to do is yum remove
thunderbird and then yum install thunderbird

Craig